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* [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
@ 2007-02-17 18:55 alain.didierjean
  2007-02-17 18:58 ` Peter Lewis
  2007-02-17 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: alain.didierjean @ 2007-02-17 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user


Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), when
booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that causes this?
What's the solution ? Help welcome.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 18:55 [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? alain.didierjean
@ 2007-02-17 18:58 ` Peter Lewis
  2007-02-19  9:25   ` [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? (Solved) alain.didierjean
  2007-02-17 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Peter Lewis @ 2007-02-17 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hi Alain,

On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0),
> when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that
> causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.

I had exactly the same problem.

When I upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, for some reason "make oldconfig" didn't 
work (maybe my misunderstanding of it).

This meant that though I thought that the old settings were copied across, in 
fact they weren't. I found the culprit of this to be that the default/generic 
IDE controller wasn't enabled in the kernel. Try going through your kernel 
config checking that your IDE/SATA controller is being built.

HTH,

Pete.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 18:55 [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? alain.didierjean
  2007-02-17 18:58 ` Peter Lewis
@ 2007-02-17 19:01 ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  2007-02-17 19:11   ` Dan Farrell
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck @ 2007-02-17 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0),
> when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that
> causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
>
> --
> ~adj~

It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI section of 
menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.

You should double check that all your required drivers have been configured.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 19:01 ` [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
@ 2007-02-17 19:11   ` Dan Farrell
  2007-02-17 19:23     ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dan Farrell @ 2007-02-17 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
> > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new
> > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
> >
> > --
> > ~adj~
> 
> It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
> section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
> 
> You should double check that all your required drivers have been
> configured.
> 
I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have
used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.  

People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 19:11   ` Dan Farrell
@ 2007-02-17 19:23     ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  2007-02-17 19:49       ` John covici
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck @ 2007-02-17 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
>
> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
> > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new
> > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~adj~
> >
> > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
> > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
> >
> > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
> > configured.
>
> I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
> work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
> finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
> might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have
> used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.
>
> People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.

The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms 
under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure 
your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to 
the correct /dev/sd* device.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 19:23     ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
@ 2007-02-17 19:49       ` John covici
  2007-02-17 19:59         ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: John covici @ 2007-02-17 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck(dystopianray@gmail.com) wrote
 > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
 > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
 > >
 > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
 > > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
 > > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
 > > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new
 > > > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
 > > > >
 > > > > --
 > > > > ~adj~
 > > >
 > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
 > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
 > > >
 > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
 > > > configured.
 > >
 > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
 > > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
 > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
 > > might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have
 > > used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.
 > >
 > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.
 > 
 > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms 
 > under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure 
 > your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to 
 > the correct /dev/sd* device.

Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide
drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions?  Which
configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained?

Thanks.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com
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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 19:49       ` John covici
@ 2007-02-17 19:59         ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  2007-02-17 20:04           ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck @ 2007-02-17 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:19, John covici wrote:
> on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck(dystopianray@gmail.com) wrote
>
>  > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
>  > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
>  > >
>  > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
>  > > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
>  > > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
>  > > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new
>  > > > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > --
>  > > > > ~adj~
>  > > >
>  > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
>  > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
>  > > >
>  > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
>  > > > configured.
>  > >
>  > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
>  > > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
>  > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
>  > > might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would
>  > > have used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.
>  > >
>  > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.
>  >
>  > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms
>  > under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either
>  > reconfigure your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all
>  > mention of /dev/hd* to the correct /dev/sd* device.
>
> Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide
> drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions?  Which
> configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained?

I've never heard of any 15 partition limit. The old ide drivers are the 
CONFIG_IDE drivers that you'd have been using previously. They are likely to 
be maintained for the forseeable future. The libata PATA drivers are 
considered experimental and do not yet implement all the functionality and 
device support of the existing ide drivers.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
  2007-02-17 19:59         ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
@ 2007-02-17 20:04           ` Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck @ 2007-02-17 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:29, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:19, John covici wrote:
> > on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck(dystopianray@gmail.com) wrote
> >
> >  > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
> >  > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
> >  > >
> >  > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> >  > > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> >  > > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
> >  > > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's
> >  > > > > new in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help
> >  > > > > welcome.
> >  > > > >
> >  > > > > --
> >  > > > > ~adj~
> >  > > >
> >  > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
> >  > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
> >  > > >
> >  > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
> >  > > > configured.
> >  > >
> >  > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed
> >  > > to work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
> >  > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
> >  > > might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would
> >  > > have used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been
> >  > > fine.
> >  > >
> >  > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.
> >  >
> >  > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your
> >  > cdroms under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either
> >  > reconfigure your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all
> >  > mention of /dev/hd* to the correct /dev/sd* device.
> >
> > Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide
> > drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions?  Which
> > configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained?
>
> I've never heard of any 15 partition limit. The old ide drivers are the
> CONFIG_IDE drivers that you'd have been using previously. They are likely
> to be maintained for the forseeable future. The libata PATA drivers are
> considered experimental and do not yet implement all the functionality and
> device support of the existing ide drivers.

I shouldn't have replied so quickly. A quick google does seem to indicate that 
the libata pata drivers suffer from a 15 partition limit imposed by the scsi 
subsystem it uses. A possible solution is using LVM or similar.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? (Solved)
  2007-02-17 18:58 ` Peter Lewis
@ 2007-02-19  9:25   ` alain.didierjean
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: alain.didierjean @ 2007-02-19  9:25 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Selon Peter Lewis <prlewis@letterboxes.org>:

> Hi Alain,
>
> On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0),
> > when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that
> > causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
>
> I had exactly the same problem.
>
> When I upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, for some reason "make oldconfig"
> didn't
> work (maybe my misunderstanding of it).
>
> This meant that though I thought that the old settings were copied across, in
> fact they weren't. I found the culprit of this to be that the default/generic
> IDE controller wasn't enabled in the kernel. Try going through your kernel
> config checking that your IDE/SATA controller is being built.

That does it: one has to enable SATA after make oldconfig, as SATA / PATA
options are no more included in SCSI option and thus not re-enabled by
oldconfig.
Thanks,

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